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AP 2010-12-21 - 英语课
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1. A call from President Barack Obama to the House to quickly approve a taxpack without changes already endorsed 1 by the Senate. Some Democrats 2 are denouncing the deal to extend Bush-era tax cuts to all taxpayers 3.


 


2. In Florida, school officials say the wife of a man confronted a school board at gunpoint had been fired. The district hired Rebecca Crowder Duke as a teacher, but he does not pass probation 4. Her husband fatally shot himself.


 


3. The Justice Department is suing BP and eight other companies in the Gulf 5 oil spill, trying to recover billions of dollars. They will be responsible for removal costs and damages.


 


4. A circus act for the Pope. Four acrobats 6 perform shirtless in front of Pope Benedict XVI. None in the audiences cheer. The Pope gave a more measured response.



1 endorsed
vt.& vi.endorse的过去式或过去分词形式v.赞同( endorse的过去式和过去分词 );在(尤指支票的)背面签字;在(文件的)背面写评论;在广告上说本人使用并赞同某产品
  • The committee endorsed an initiative by the chairman to enter discussion about a possible merger. 委员会通过了主席提出的新方案,开始就可能进行的并购进行讨论。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The government has broadly endorsed a research paper proposing new educational targets for 14-year-olds. 政府基本上支持建议对14 岁少年实行新教育目标的研究报告。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 democrats
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
  • The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
  • The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 taxpayers
纳税人,纳税的机构( taxpayer的名词复数 )
  • Finance for education comes from taxpayers. 教育经费来自纳税人。
  • She was declaiming against the waste of the taxpayers' money. 她慷慨陈词猛烈抨击对纳税人金钱的浪费。
4 probation
n.缓刑(期),(以观后效的)察看;试用(期)
  • The judge did not jail the young man,but put him on probation for a year.法官没有把那个年轻人关进监狱,而且将他缓刑察看一年。
  • His salary was raised by 800 yuan after his probation.试用期满以后,他的工资增加了800元。
5 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
6 acrobats
n.杂技演员( acrobat的名词复数 );立场观点善变的人,主张、政见等变化无常的人
  • I was always fascinated by the acrobats at the circus. 我总是着迷于马戏团里的杂技演员。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The acrobats' performance drew forth applause from the audience. 杂技演员的表演博得了观众的掌声。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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accretionary bar
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
all-holy
anti-ship
apass
babelomurex habui
blind tract wound
blue-form return
boltspreet
borda
bromian
calculated performance
chamfer-length
check weigher
chilled-roll
complex analytic submanifold
concrete mix transfer machine
cortical substance (or cortex)
creasings
cross-bearings
design wind loading
diconnected digraph
dislodger
doorgame
dry mount
due to bank
edit bit
employee income taxes withheld
exchange earning
fash one's thumb
feather-footed
footing beam
frequency shift local oscillator
full scale flow-rate
Gaelicized
gatage indicator
gravity separation
guai lan
guevaras
helmbold
heroicness
high muck-a-muck
holographic representation
hutterites
hyere
hypersensitive dentin
immunologic function test
innas
international protection of trademark
Ischnacanthidea
kirkendal
knife fights
labyrinthine reflexes
lime powder
Mercamphamide
mikans
Mitchell 2, John
movable insurance
neoaristolactone
open compute
optimizing translator
overlook the account
overshoot attack
page option
paleoearthquake
periorbital membranes
perraling
plume poppies
poke berry
prototyping technique
repairing size
saline bottle
Sanamid
schnap(p)s
seagull managers
seavers
self-confinement
single countershaft gearbox
Son Hoa
soul patch
subsurface crack
supersonic cleaner
Swibec
Tabatinga, R.
tail sheath
take disciplinary action
Tax-exempt money market fund
tea house
tentacle ampullae
texturization
theoebo
tourgoers
transitron oscillator circuit
Turgayan flora
ucambine
unpoisonous
upbreak
vodka luge
volumescopes
whole-plant
yeat